I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
Rania Khalek reports from Beirut, where Israel is pursuing an open campaign of ethnic cleansing. She explains Israel’s systematic destruction of Lebanese infrastructure and its chilling “Gaza model” for the South.
Rania also discusses her recent one-on-one interview with Piers Morgan, where she refused to play the “condemnation game” and highlighted the staggering hypocrisy of labeling Lebanese resistance as “terrorists” as they resist Israeli invaders.
Israel has expanded its war across the region, bombing Lebanon and Iran while preparing a potential ground invasion into southern Lebanon. Israeli officials claim the goal is simply to create a “buffer zone” for security. But many Israeli politicians and commentators are openly discussing something much bigger: territorial expansion to the Litani River and beyond.
This is not about security, it’s part of much longer historical Greater Israel project On this live episode of Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by historian Zachary Foster to examine the long history of Israeli invasions of Lebanon, the ideological roots of the “Greater Israel” concept, and how the Gaza model of destruction is now spreading across the region.
Three weeks into the war on Iran, the conflict is expanding more than ever. The Strait of Hormuz is closed, energy infrastructure is under attack, and U.S. bases are increasingly vulnerable. Israel and Washington are escalating. According to Middle East expert Vali Nasr, this is actually all part of Iran’s strategy. Iran isn’t trying to win quickly. To “win” is to survive — and for that it wants to make the war longer, more expensive, and politically unsustainable for the United States.
In this conversation with Rania Khalek, Nasr explains: -Why Trump gets weaker the longer the war extends -How energy and Hormuz became the central battlefield -What Washington fundamentally miscalculated -Why regime change is unlikely -The role of Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Iraqi factions -And whether any real off-ramp still exists -If this war continues, the consequences won’t just be regional, they will be global.
From Beirut, Rania Khalek reports on the chaos as Israel orders hundreds of thousands from the southern suburbs to evacuate, saying, “Israel is trying to empty out huge portions of Lebanon like never before.” As Israel intensifies its war on Iran, Lebanon faces escalating bombings, mass displacement, and the looming threat of invasion. “Israel is applying its ‘Gaza Doctrine’ to Iran, South Lebanon – they are totally unleashed with no red lines,” says Rania.
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran enters day two, with bombs falling across the Middle East.
After assassinating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Washington and Tel Aviv push for rapid regime change, but Iran is escalating across every GCC country hosting U.S. forces. Iran, Tel Aviv, and the Gulf states are all taking unprecedented hits.
Join Rania Khalek and special guests for urgent analysis on the latest developments, strategy, and the dangerous road ahead.
Special Guests:
–Ali Abunimah, Co-founder and Director of Electronic Intifada
–Negar Mortazavi, Senior Fellow at Center for International Policy and host of the Iran podcast
–Séamus Malekafzali, Journalist and co-host of the Turbulence podcast
–Nathan Thompson, Senior policy adviser at Just Foreign Policy
We’re joined live by former UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, whose recent Mondoweiss article, “Ushering in the age of impunity: Venezuela, Palestine, and the end of international law,” unpacks how recent U.S. aggression from Venezuela to Gaza signals a dangerous unraveling of the post-World War II legal order.
The U.S. military raid on Venezuela on January 3 shocked the world. On Dispatches, Rania Khalek is joined by Jorge Arreaza, Venezuela’s former foreign minister, to explain what actually happened and to respond directly to U.S. media narratives about “betrayal,” regime change, and control.
As Israel continues its relentless assault on Gaza, killing and starving hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with Western backing, even during so-called ceasefires, one thing has become clear: this isn’t just about Palestine. It’s about Western supremacy, empire, and the racism that underpins them both.
To discuss this, Rania Khalek is joined by Dr. Ghada Karmi — academic, physician, and Nakba survivor — who has written powerfully about how Western imperialism, Arab complicity, and Zionism’s own contradictions have led us here. Dr. Karmi is a former research fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter and author of many books including “One State: The Only Democratic Future for Palestine-Israel.”
She has spent her life exposing the deeper roots of this catastrophe: the colonial mindset that made Palestine disposable, the Western guilt that turned Jewish suffering into Palestinian punishment, and the moral rot that allows genocide to be broadcast live without consequence.
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